Herbs, perennial; stems solitary or fascicled, ca. 9 cm tall, erect, gray-white, appressed pubescent especially near capitula. Basal leaves with petiole 1-1.5 mm; leaf blade ovate, ca. 1.3 × 1 cm, both surfaces gray-white, densely pubescent, 2-pinnatisect; primary lateral segments 2-or 3-paired; ultimate segments narrowly elliptic. Stem leaves similar to basal leaves; leaves below synflorescence pinnatisect. Capitula 4-6, in apical dense corymb, pedunculate; peduncle very short, densely lanate or villous. Involucres campanulate, ca. 7 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, abaxially villous, margin dark brown or pale brown scarious, outer ones lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, middle and inner ones elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 3-5 mm. Florets yellow, ca. 3.5 mm. Fl. Jun.